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Via Krupp In 1900 the German magnate Krupp financed a street for travel by foot that joined the Quisisana, where he lived, to the Marina Piccola. Built with admirable skill by the engineer Emilio Mayer, it has been called “the world’s most beautiful road”, thanks to the manner in which it hugs the rock and the appropriate use of local construction materials . (via Hotels in Capri Italy – Daily excursions to Capri from the Hotel Onda Verde in Amalfi Coast
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Italy’s most famous island, Capri is a dramatic rugged mountain soaring out of the sea at the tip of the Sorrento peninsula. A haunt for eccentric characters since antiquity (Roman Emperor Tiberius had his villa of pleasures, the villa Jovis), Capri has been the preferred retreat of artists, movie stars, and other VIP’s in modern times. Scottish writer Norman Douglas’s novel South Wind (1917) is part homage to the island and part satire on its eclectic inhabitants. (via Hotels in Capri Italy – Daily excursions to Capri from the Hotel Onda Verde in Amalfi Coast
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